Wisconsin · Private foundation
Z Foundation Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $223k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $138,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 9
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Z Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $223k | 43% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $141k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $120k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $123k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $123k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $123k | 86% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $82k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gift of Life Inc | $42,375 | 4 | 1% |
| Bolder Options | $29,250 | 5 | 1% |
| Tee It Up for the Troops Inc | $23,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Reach Out and Read Minnesota | $20,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities Midwest Mn Wi Ia | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jeremiah Program | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Next 18 Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
| St Olaf College | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($790k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Z Foundation Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Z Foundation Trust
- How much does Z Foundation Trust give?
- Z Foundation Trust reported 7 grants totaling $223,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Z Foundation Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (33%), Health (14%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are Z Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Gift of Life Inc ($42k), Bolder Options ($29k), Tee It Up for the Troops Inc ($24k).
- Does Z Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Z Foundation Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Z Foundation Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mightycause Charitable Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust, Xcel Energy Foundation.
- Where is Z Foundation Trust based?
- Z Foundation Trust is based in WI.
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